<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><notice xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><NoticeID>764</NoticeID><Headline>Run away</Headline><NoticeDate>1777-08-01T00:00:00</NoticeDate><PublisherInfo><PublisherName>New Bern, N.C. : North Carolina Gazette</PublisherName><NewspaperName>North Carolina Gazette [New Bern], 1768-1778</NewspaperName><PublisherCity>New Bern</PublisherCity><PublisherCounty>Craven</PublisherCounty><PublisherState>NC</PublisherState></PublisherInfo><Transcript>CRAVEN, August 1, 1777.  RUN AWAY FROM the Subscriber, living at the Head on Clubfoot's Creek, the 22d of April last, a Mulatto Slave named BEN, about 5 feet 8 Inches high, has lost the little Toe off his right Foot, and has been about Slocomb's Creek. Whoever apprehends the said Fellow, and brings him to me, shall have Twenty Dollars, if taken in this state, and Thirty Dollars if out thereof. RICHARD LOVETT.</Transcript><StateCode>NC</StateCode><CountyCode>CRA</CountyCode><CountyOfPublication>Craven</CountyOfPublication><NewspaperPageNumber>3</NewspaperPageNumber><Destinations><string>Slocomb's Creek (N.C.)</string></Destinations><DatesOfDeparture><string>4/22/1777</string></DatesOfDeparture><People><NoticePerson><Name>Richard Lovett</Name><Role>Placing Ad</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Ben</Name><Role>Slave</Role></NoticePerson><NoticePerson><Name>Richard Lovett</Name><Role>Slaveholder</Role></NoticePerson></People><CityOfResidence>Clubfoot's Creek</CityOfResidence><CountyOfResidence>Craven</CountyOfResidence><StateOfResidence>NC</StateOfResidence></notice>